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Cbus Super makes key ESG hire

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
High-profile sustainable finance specialist Camille Wynter has taken on the role of ESG integration lead at Cbus. She will be part of the responsible investment team and report to Ros McKay. Wynter succeeds Talieh Williams, who left in March to become ...

Robeco names Singapore country head

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
The Dutch asset manager has appointed its head of fixed income for the region as country head. Thu Ha Chow, who will retain her current role in addition to taking up the leadership position, replaces Nayan Patel, who left the firm this month after 10 ...

Magellan bolsters investment and distribution ranks

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
Magellan Asset Management has strengthened both its distribution and investment teams with a string of senior hires, sharpening its adviser focus and deepening its equities and infrastructure bench. Andrew Dowling, who joins next month, will be based ...

Super moves: PE exec quits Future Fund for ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
One of Future Fund's top managers has left to join Australian Retirement Trust as a portfolio manager within the private equity team. Anika Choudhury has left Australia's sovereign wealth fund where she started out a senior analyst nearly five ...

ASIC appoints ASX inquiry panel

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... supporting the inquiry." "This is a wide-ranging inquiry, and it will provide an independent and transparent view of the work we have done, and the work we still have to do. It will be critical to ensuring our stakeholders can have trust and confidence ...

InvestSMART names chief operating officer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
InvestSMART has named Andrew Ward as its chief operating officer in the newly created role, effective July 1. Ward is currently, and will continue to be, InvestSMART's chief financial officer along with taking on the new role. InvestSMART said the role ...

ASFA, JANA release draft guidance on operational due diligence

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) and asset consultant JANA have released a draft guidance note on investment management operational due diligence ahead of Prudential Standard CPS 230 Operational Risk Management. Shaped through ...

Hollywood actors lobby pension fund to dump fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
More than 200 actors have signed an open letter to the trustees of the SAG-Producers Pension Plan asking it to divest from fossil fuels and redirect the assets into responsible investments. Members of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation ...

Group insurance premiums paid by super funds up 7%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
Group insurance premiums paid through APRA-regulated superannuation funds rose by 7% in 2023-24, taking total premiums up to $9.5 billion, according to Rainmaker Information. Meanwhile, group insurance claims paid rose 16% in 2023-24 to a record $5.8 ...

Life insurer chief executives step down, successor named

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
Acenda Group is set to welcome a group chief executive, as Kent Griffin and Tim Tez announce their departures. Former Westpac executive Chris de Bruin has been appointed chief executive of Acenda Group, subject to regulatory approvals of the merger ...